{"id":12079,"date":"2015-07-28T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=12079"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:00:43","slug":"emails-reveal-rihanna-wanted-to-perform-free-concert-honoring-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=12079","title":{"rendered":"Emails Reveal Rihanna Wanted to Perform Free Concert Honoring Freddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/rihanna_ao1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/rihanna_ao1.jpg?resize=250%2C247\" alt=\"rihanna_AO\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10173\" \/><\/a>Emails released Monday (July 27) reveal Rihanna wanted to come to Baltimore to perform a free concert and walk with protestors in the wake of Freddi Gray&#8217;s death. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Freddie, 25, was arrested on a weapons charge April 12, 2015 but suffered a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody that led to his death seven days later. <\/p>\n<p>In a message dated May 1 sent to Capt. Eric Kowalczyk, then the head of media relations for Baltimore Police, details of a conversation he had with a representative for Rihanna.<\/p>\n<p>The representative &#8220;advised that Rihanna wants to walk with the protesters as well as perform a free concert,&#8221; the officer wrote. &#8220;He added that she will be arriving by plane and in an effort to divert press\/media she will be traveling to the city by train (or by car if necessary).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He] stated that they had hoped to secure some extra police security and was directed by the Governor&#8217;s office to seek assistance through Communications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An officer who was cc&#8217;ed on the email forwarded it to Anthony Batts, who was then the police commissioner. Kowalczyk also passed the message along to Kevin Harris, a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.<\/p>\n<p>The possible concert was also mentioned in a situation report dated May 1 and indicates police might have stopped any attempt at holding a show. It seems the issue stemmed from a lack of permits.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Prince played a show at the Royal Farms Arena on May 10 and performed a song he wrote about the unrest in Baltimore. A livestreaming company backed by rapper and music business executive Jay-Z broadcast part of the concert.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Emails released Monday (July 27) reveal Rihanna wanted to come to Baltimore to perform a free concert and walk with protestors in the wake of Freddi Gray&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,1082],"class_list":["post-12079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-rihanna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-38P","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rihanna_ao1.jpg?fit=250%2C247&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}